Displaying WEPopover from UIButton instead of UIBarButtonItem - ios

Question

I am using WEPopover in my app to pop up a popover controller containg some buttons,it works when i put wepopover controller action in tabbarIteam but i need to get popover when i click UIButton.How to do this this is my barbuttonitem code for displaying popover.
-(IBAction)_clickbtnAccount:(id)sender
{
if (!self.popoverController)
{
UIViewController *contentViewController = [[pageAccount alloc]initWithNibName:#"pageAccount" bundle:nil];
self.popoverController = [[[popoverClass alloc] initWithContentViewController:contentViewController] autorelease];
self.popoverController.delegate = self;
self.popoverController.passthroughViews = [NSArray arrayWithObject:self.navigationController.navigationBar];
[self.popoverController presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:sender
permittedArrowDirections:(UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp|UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown)
animated:YES];
[contentViewController release];
}
else
{
[self.popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
self.popoverController = nil;
}
}
-(IBAction)_clickbtnAccount:(id)sender
{
if (!self.popoverController)
{
UIButton *senderButton = (UIButton *)sender;
[self.popoverController presentPopoverFromRect:[senderButton frame]
inView:#"pageAccount"
permittedArrowDirections:(UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp|UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown)
animated:YES];
}
else
{
[self.popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
self.popoverController = nil;
}
}

Answer 1

So you don't want to display a WEPopoverfrom an UIBarButtonItem but from an UIButton, right?!
Just use
- (void)presentPopoverFromRect:(CGRect)rect
inView:(UIView *)view
permittedArrowDirections:(UIPopoverArrowDirection)arrowDirections
animated:(BOOL)animated;
instead of
- (void)presentPopoverFromBarButtonItem:(UIBarButtonItem *)item
permittedArrowDirections:(UIPopoverArrowDirection)arrowDirections
animated:(BOOL)animated;
and pass in the rect of your UIButton.
Taking your code as an example:
-(IBAction)_clickbtnAccount:(id)sender
{
if (!self.popoverController) {
UIViewController *contentViewController = [[pageAccount alloc]initWithNibName:#"pageAccount" bundle:nil];
self.popoverController = [[[popoverClass alloc] initWithContentViewController:contentViewController] autorelease];
self.popoverController.delegate = self;
self.popoverController.passthroughViews = [NSArray arrayWithObject:self.navigationController.navigationBar];
UIButton *senderButton = (UIButton *)sender;
[self.popoverController presentPopoverFromRect:[senderButton frame]
inView:self.view
permittedArrowDirections:(UIPopoverArrowDirectionUp|UIPopoverArrowDirectionDown)
animated:YES];
[contentViewController release];
} else {
[self.popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
self.popoverController = nil;
}
}

Answer 2

WEPopover is basically used to show multiple options inside a popover with much control using UITableview.
This is how i use WEPopOver to show popup on a button click
-(void)showPopOver:(id)sender{
if (self.popoverController) {
[self.popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
self.popoverController = nil;
}
PopOverTable *contentViewController = [[PopOverTable alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStylePlain];
contentViewController.delegatePopoverItemSelectedDelegate=self;
rectForPopover = [self.view convertRect:btn.bounds fromView:btn];
self.popoverController = [[[popoverClass alloc] initWithContentViewController:contentViewController] autorelease];
if ([self.popoverController respondsToSelector:#selector(setContainerViewProperties:)]) {
[self.popoverController setContainerViewProperties:[self improvedContainerViewProperties]];
}
self.popoverController.delegate = self;
[self.popoverController presentPopoverFromRect:rectForPopover
inView: self.view
permittedArrowDirections:(UIPopoverArrowDirectionAny)
animated:YES];
}

Answer 3

With the accepted solution I get rotation issues for the WEPopover under iOS 7: Basically it was pointing to a custom button in the UIBarButtonItem on the left of the navigation bar but on rotation the pop up moves to the right side of the screen and stays there on further rotations.